In military terms, 4th Division may refer to:

Infantry divisions

4th (Quetta) Division The 4th (Quetta) Division was an infantry division of the British Indian Army. It was formed by Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, General Kitchener while he was Commander-in-chief of British Raj, India. During World War I the division rema ...

, British Indian Army * 4th Alpine Division Cuneense, Italy *

4th Blackshirt Division (3 January) Fourth or the fourth may refer to: * the ordinal form of the number 4 * ''Fourth'' (album), by Soft Machine, 1971 * Fourth (angle), an ancient astronomical subdivision * Fourth (music), a musical interval * ''The Fourth'' (1972 film), a Sovie ...

, Italy *

4th Canadian Division The 4th Canadian Division is a formation of the Canadian Army. The division was first created as a formation of the Canadian Corps during the First World War. During the Second World War the division was reactivated as the 4th Canadian Infantr ...

4th Division (Australia) The Australian 4th Division was formed in the First World War during the expansion of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) infantry brigades in February 1916. In addition to the experienced 4th Brigade (previously in the original New Zealand ...

* 4th Division (Estonia) *

4th Division (German Empire) The 4th Division (''4. Division'') was a unit of the Prussian/German Army. It was formed in Torgau on September 5, 1818. The headquarters moved to Stargard (now Stargard Szczeciński, Poland) in 1820, where it stayed until 1852. In 1852, the hea ...

* 4th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) *

4th Division (Iraq) The 4th Division is a motorized-infantry division of the Iraqi Army. It is currently headquartered in Tikrit city. It was formed before 1941, disbanded in 2003, but reactivated after 2004. History The division was one of the four original div ...

* 4th Division (Japan) *

4th Division (New Zealand) The 4th Division was one of three home defence divisions of the New Zealand Military Forces formed during World War II. The unit was established on 1 November 1941 and was responsible for protecting the southern part of New Zealand's North Island ...

4th Division (North Korea) The 4th Infantry Division was a military formation of the Korean People's Army during the 20th Century. History Activated in late 1948, the 4th Infantry Division in the summer of 1950 consisted of the 5th, 16th, and 18th Infantry regiments, pl ...

* 4th Division (Norway), participated in the Norwegian Campaign * 4th Division (Reichswehr) *

4th Guards Motor Rifle Division The 4th Guards Motor Rifle Division () was a motorized infantry division of the Soviet Army during the Cold War. The division began its history as the 13th Tank Corps of the Red Army, formed in April 1942 during World War II and fought in the Sov ...

(Soviet Union) *

4th Guards Rifle Division The 4th Guards Rifle Division was reformed as an elite infantry division on September 18, 1941, from the 1st formation of the 161st Rifle Division as one of the original Guards formations of the Red Army, in recognition of that division's partici ...

(Soviet Union) *

4th Infantry Division (Belgium) The 4th Infantry Division ''(4de Infanterie Divisie)'' was an infantry division of the Belgian Army that existed during the Battle of Belgium during the Second World War. History World War I Before mobilization for the First World War in 19 ...

Belgian Army order of battle (1914) This is the order of battle for the Belgian Army on the outbreak of war in August 1914, at the start of the German invasion of Belgium. Background At the outbreak of World War I, the Belgian Army was in the middle of a reorganisation. From Belgi ...

* 4th Infantry Division (Greece) *

4th Infantry Division (India) The 4th Indian Infantry Division, also known as the Red Eagle Division, is an infantry division of the Indian Army. This division of the British Indian Army was formed in Egypt in 1939 during the Second World War. During the Second World War, ...

* 4th Infantry Division (Philippines) *

4th Infantry Division (Poland) The Polish 4th Infantry Division (''Polish: 4. Dywizja Piechoty'') was created following Polish independence after the end of World War I. The division participated in the Polish–Ukrainian War in 1919. During World War II, the division existed as ...

* 4th Infantry Division (Romania) *

4th Infantry Division (Russian Empire) The 4th Infantry Division (russian: 4-я пехотная дивизия, ''4-ya Pekhotnaya Diviziya'') was an infantry formation of the Russian Imperial Army that existed in various formations from 1806 until the end of World War I and the Russian ...

* 4th Infantry Division (Thailand) *

4th Infantry Division (United Kingdom) The 4th Infantry Division was a regular infantry division of the British Army with a very long history, seeing active service in the Peninsular War, the Crimean War, the First World War, and during the Second World War. It was disbanded after ...

4th Infantry Division (United States) The 4th Infantry Division is a division of the United States Army based at Fort Carson, Colorado. It is composed of a division headquarters battalion, three brigade combat teams (two Stryker and one armor), a combat aviation brigade, a di ...

* 4th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) * 4th Infantry Division Littorio, Italy * 4th Infantry Division Livorno * 4th Luftwaffe Field Division (Germany) *

4th Marine Division (United States) The 4th Marine Division is a reserve division in the United States Marine Corps. It was raised in 1943 for service during World War II, and subsequently fought in the Pacific against the Japanese. Deactivated after the war, the division was re-f ...

* 4th Motor Rifle Division (Soviet Union) *

4th Motorized Infantry Division (People's Republic of China) The 4th Division () was created in February 1949 under ''the Regulation of the Redesignations of All Organizations and Units of the Army'', issued by Central Military Commission on November 1, 1948,《中央军委关于统一全军组织及部队� ...

* 4th Mountain Division (Wehrmacht) *

4th Panzergrenadier Division (Bundeswehr) The 4th Panzergrenadier Division (''4. Panzergrenadierdivision'') was a West German mechanized infantry formation. It was part of the II Corps of the Bundeswehr The ''Bundeswehr'' (, meaning literally: ''Federal Defence'') is the armed force ...

4th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) The 4th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army, formed three times. It was first formed in 1919 from the remnants of the Lithuanian Rifle Division and fought in the Defence of Petrograd during the Russian Civil War ...

* 4th Royal Bavarian Division *

4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division The 4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division (4. SS-Polizei-Panzergrenadier-Division) or SS Division Polizei was one of the thirty-eight divisions fielded as part of the Waffen-SS during World War II. Formation The division was formed in Octobe ...

, Germany *

Finnish 4th Division (Winter War) The 4th Division was a unit of the Finnish Army during the Winter War. It was part of the II Corps (''II AK'') which fought on the Karelian Isthmus. The 4th Division was responsible for the front between the Gulf of Finland The Gulf of Finland ( ...

Cavalry divisions

4th Light Cavalry Division (France) The 4th Light Cavalry Division () was a French Army division active during World War II. World War 2 Battle Of France During the Battle of France in May 1940 the division contained the following units: * 4th Cavalry Brigade ** 8th Dragoon Regimen ...

* 4th Cavalry Division (German Empire) *

9th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht) The 9th Panzer Division was a panzer division of the German Army during World War II. It came into existence after 4th Light Division was reorganized in January 1940. The division was headquartered in Vienna, in the German military district ...

, originally the 4th Light Division *

1st Indian Cavalry Division The 1st Indian Cavalry Division was a division of the British Indian Army which was formed at the outbreak of the First World War. It served on the Western Front, and was renamed the 4th Cavalry Division on 26 November 1916. In March 1918, the ...

, designated 4th Cavalry Division from November 1916 to March 1918 in France in World War I *

4th Cavalry Division (India) The 1st Mounted Division was a cavalry Division (military), division that served as part of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Palestine (region), Palestine in World War I. It was formed in April 1918 when the Yeomanry Mounted Division was mer ...

, British Indian Army * 4th Cavalry Division (Russian Empire) * 4th Mounted Division, United Kingdom

Armoured divisions

* 4th Armoured Division (Egypt) * 4th Armoured Division (France, 1964) *

4th Armored Division (France, 1940) The 4th Armored Division () was a short-lived armoured unit of the French Army. Formed on 10 May 1940 on the battlefield, it comprised mainly tank battalions. It fought without interruption for forty days and was initially commanded by Charles de ...

* 4th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht) * 4th Tank Division (Imperial Japanese Army) *

4th Guards Tank Division The 4th Guards Kantemirovskaya Order of Lenin Red Banner Tank Division named after Yuri Andropov (), commonly known as the Kantemirovites, the Kantemirovskaya Division or Kantemir Division, is a Guards armoured division of the Russian Ground For ...

, Russia * 4th Armoured Division (Syria) *

- an armoured division in the 1980s *

4th Armored Division (United States) The 4th Armored Division was an armored division of the United States Army that earned distinction while spearheading General Patton's Third Army in the European theater of World War II. The 4th Armored Division, unlike most other U.S. ar ...

Aviation divisions

* 4th Fighter Aviation Division (People's Liberation Army Air Force), China *

4th Air Division (Germany) 4. Flieger DivisionFor an explanation of the meaning of Luftwaffe unit designation see Luftwaffe Organisation (4th Air Division) was one of the primary divisions of the German Luftwaffe in World War II. It was formed on 1 August 1938 in Munich fro ...

* 4th Fighter Division (Germany) * 4th Air Division, United States

Other divisions

* 4th Parachute Division (Germany) * 4th Guards Airborne Division (Soviet Union) *

4th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division (Soviet Union) The 4th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division () was an anti-aircraft artillery division of the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II and the Soviet Army in the early postwar years. Formed in November 1942, the division was soon sent to the fron ...

4th Guards Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division The 4th Guards Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division () was an anti-aircraft artillery division of the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war t ...

(Soviet Union) * 4th Army Division, Sweden * 4th Airborne Division, United Kingdom deception formation *

4th Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom) Fourth or the fourth may refer to: * the ordinal form of the number 4 * ''Fourth'' (album), by Soft Machine, 1971 * Fourth (angle), an ancient astronomical subdivision * Fourth (music), a musical interval * ''The Fourth'' (1972 film), a Sovie ...

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